Burning Bridges
The Orca is well under way and should be built in about six days, I have purchased the main POS elements, with just the weapons remaining, skill training is moving at its usuall snails pace.
I have stopped training Abel up to a Hulk as it is taking way too long, and have started training Jay for a Typhoon that will be able to remote repair shields and armour, as well as chuck a few missiles.
I have informed the corporation of my plans and asked them to bare with me while I go on my little solo jaunt.
It makes me feel as though I am burning bridges, which is silly really, it’s not like I am leaving the corp, I’m just breaking from corp activities for a while until I get the wormholes out of my system.:)
My inspiration, Star Defender has gone on leave for a Week and I already miss reading the daily updates in his Blog
This is turning out to be quite an expensive little excercise, and looks like I will have to sell another GTC to get the final bit of cash required.
I do believe though, that if everything goes to plan I will pay for all of this with the first expedition, and might even have a little profit on the side.
And Preparation
I have started building the Orca, which I will use as my main transport ship to cart the POS and arrays into W-space.
Ben is training the Crane Transport skills and will probably use the crane to haul minerals back to hisec.
I am thinking of taking a refinery to cut down on the number of trips back to hisec, minerals take a lot less space than ore.
That of course means that I have changed my mind about the size of control tower I will use, opting now for a large one, along with a good assortment of weapons.
It is a fair guess that if I intend mining the W-space, I am going to be living there a lot longer than I originally planned to.
While I am there I might as well try my hand at gas mining as well, which means another skill to train up.
If I keep finding new skills to train I will never get ther lol.
Planning
I realise that I can’t just go barging into wormholes without a plan, so while my skills are training up I will spend my time planning the whole operation.
I have a fear of finding myself stuck in W-Space with one vital piece of equipment forgotten, and unable to go back for it until the next wormhole opens.
So with that in mind, I will list here the equipment that I think will be required, remember that this is an operation involving just my main character and two alts, it is not a corporation excercise, that will come later when I have gained the experience and can convince my corp mates to spend a couple of weeks living in a wormhole.
Possible Requirements
POS
Small Amarr control tower
Corporate hangar array
Ship maintenance array
Three or four POS weapons
Fuel for two weeks
Strontium
Ships
Orca – has lots of cargo space
Crane – for quick trips with loot
Buzzard and Cheetah – for scanning
Hurricane – salvage boat
Hulk – for Dirk
Retriever – for Abel, until he can fly a Hulk
Ben will haul in the Crane
Raven
Drake
Scorpion
Abel can be swapped out for Jay if I need another damage dealer
A new path
I recently came across a blog by a character who goes by the name of “Star Defender,” you can find it in my Blogroll under the name “EVE Online Wormholes.”
I think I read his entire blog through twice, and at the end of it realised that here is something I just have to do.
Our corp CEO and a couple of the other guys had been talking about having a go at wormholes, which encouraged me to do a bit more digging with the help of Google, and I found to my surprise that there is a lot of information on the subject, quite surprising when you consider what a short time Apocrypha has been out.
My excitement started to mount with every blog and post that I read, and it dawned on me that this was actually possible to do, even at my skill level, plus a week or two of specialised training.
So after reading up on what skills and equipment will be required to actually camp wormholes while I suck the goodness out of them, I have made the decision to have a go.
Following in the footsteps of ”Star Defender” I will attempt to document my journey through the wormholes I find. Nothing much will happen for a couple of weeks while I wait for my skills to reach the required levels, so don’t hold your breath, but do pop in from time to time to see how I am doing.
